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Re:China’s Re-education Camps by dmix on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @04:40PM (#17871792)
Are you saying US prisons are "re-education" camps or are you just taking the opportunity to bring up some popular social issues in a weakly relevant "what-about-ism".
Re:China’s Re-education Camps by denerio-a on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @05:27PM (#17872220)
His point is obvious, clear, and inarguable. If you can’t grasp it that’s on you.
Re:China’s Re-education Camps by 394549 on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @05:38PM (#17872298)
> His point is obvious, clear, and inarguable. If you can’t grasp it that’s on you.

His point is definitely arguable and not at all obvious or clear: it rests on conflating prisons with political re-education camps. The two things obviously have similarities, but they also have important differences.

Re:China’s Re-education Camps by donbright on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @09:42PM (#17873540)
how important are the differences really?

whether you are in a Chinese prison or a US prison does it really matter which injust, ridiculous, hypocritical system put you there? does it really matter what kind of grandiose intellectual contortions your captors use to justify their behavior towards you? if you are being raped or beaten or worked until you bleed do you really care what language they are using to scream at you while they do it? does your family, who doesnt know where you are, and wont see you for years, care what flag is flown over the walls that enclose you?

Re:China’s Re-education Camps by ardy42 on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @10:29PM (#17873716)
> how important are the differences really?

The differences are very important. In one, the prisoners are ideally a threat to the members of their society in some way: rapists, con artists, thieves. In the other, the prisoners are only a threat to or a scapegoat for the already-powerful rulers: intellectuals, dissidents, minorities.

> whether you are in a Chinese prison or a US prison does it really matter which injust, ridiculous, hypocritical system put you there?

Yes it does, because they're not "injust, ridiculous, hypocritical" to anywhere near the same degree.